AmyD. | December 1, 2009

A year ago today I was trapped in a hospital room watching my son recover from Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection. Horrific, excruciating, and painful are all understatements.
Mike stayed as long as he could before taking our girls home and leaving me down at UCLA with Ethan. In the room I kept a brave face, made [...]

Category: Captured for Posterity, Holidays, Life Happens..., Memories, Mom Stuff, Observations, People I Love, Serious, The Time Has Come | 6 Comments »
Tags: amy grant, cancer, chemo, Chris Eaton, Christmas, Christmas carols, Ethan, I Need A Silent Night, Memories, radiation, recovery, RPLND, song lyrics, surgeries, testicular cancer, UCLA, video

AmyD. | May 18, 2009

The incredible vanishing blogger! Ta da!!!
You know how every once in a while you read those posts where someone says, “wow, maybe my obsession with blogging is over? Maybe I don’t care about this as much as I used to. Maybe I’ll take a break, maybe I’ll stop, maybe I’ll disappear…?”
Then people leave comments like, [...]

Category: General Pointless Bitchiness, Life Happens..., Memories, Mom Stuff, Personally, Serious, The Time Has Come | 10 Comments »
Tags: barbecue, Blogging, bullshit, drama, graduation, Kids, Mike, strike out, summer vacation

AmyD. | May 7, 2009

Mother’s Day is this Sunday. I can’t imagine many mothers in the blogosphere not taking a moment to remember two little girls who lost their mother to cancer this year. Lisa at Clusterfook touched so many lives and even in the midst of her own battle she took the time to give me a [...]

Category: Girl Talk, Holidays, Mom Stuff, My Soapbox, People I Love, Serious, With Music | 12 Comments »
Tags: amy grant, cancer, Mother's Day, philosophy, She Colors My Day, song, women's cancer research